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Pa. schools are the nation’s most inequitable. The new governor wants to fix that.

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Publication date: Apr 22, 2015

Posted by Emma Brown.

PHILADELPHIA — At Martin Luther King High, a hulking half-full school here, there aren’t enough textbooks to go around. If teachers want to make a photocopy, they have to buy paper themselves. Though an overwhelming majority of students are living in poverty, no social worker is available to help. Private donations allow for some dance and music classes, but they serve just 60 of the school’s 1,200 students.